The State Department has yanked more than 6,000 student visas in 2025 for overstays and law violations -- including support for terrorism, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Trump administration has launched multiple initiatives aimed at cracking down on immigration and revoking visas of those attending academic institutions in the U.S.
Those who've participated in pro-Palestinian protests have faced heightened scrutiny, as one example, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May that the administration was reviewing the visa status of those students.
The roughly 6,000 visas that were pulled were primarily due to visa overstays or encounters with the law, including assault, DUIs, burglary and support for terrorism, the State Department told Fox News Digital.
"Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States," a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs."
Those who had their student visas yanked due to assault -- roughly 800 students -- either faced arrest or charges stemming from assault, according to the State Department official.
Those whose visas were pulled due to support for terrorism -- between 200 people to 300 people -- engaged in behavior such as raising funds for the militant group Hamas, which the U.S. State Department has designated as a terrorist organization, the official said.
Altogether, the State Department told Fox News Digital that approximately 40,000 visas have been pulled in 2025, in comparison to the 16,000 that were revoked during the same time frame under the Biden administration.
"Even if the previous administration was doing less, they were still revoking visas," the State Department official said. "It's not something that just started on January 20 ... So this has happened for years."
Rubio told lawmakers in May that he estimated "thousands" of student visas had been rescinded since January.
"I don't know the latest count, but we probably have more to do," Rubio told lawmakers on the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing foreign affairs May 20. "We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities."
The Democrat Party, the Party of Foreign Terrorists, objects, claiming that foreigners have some kind of right to come to America to raise money for Hamas and that taking away their visa is a denial of due process.
Communists are objecting to the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Service) now looking at applicants' social media history to determine if they're anti-American, pro-terrorist, or criminally-inclined.
They seriously believe that criminals and terrorists have a right to come to America just because they're f***ing foreign and therefore superior to American citizens.
Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain
It's "McCarthyism" to expect immigrants to actually admire our country if they wish to immigrate here